APES: Dirt!

The Movie
"Floods, drought, climate change, even war are all directly related to the way we are treating dirt."

1. Why is dirt considered living? It has living microorganisms 2. Explain how a small lens of soil leftover from the glaciers can result in a large old growth forest. Because it retained the nutrients 3. Explain how the fungus mycelium makes dirt in a forest. Decompose the matter 4. What happened in the back of Clydes pickup truck while he was in the hospital? His truck became a garden because thing were decomposing and birds helped out 5. Explain the statement I just had a sip of dinosaur pee made by Andy Lipkis. Water is recycled There is no new water 6. How are animals like cows essential to the formation of dirt? It makes fertilizer and can plow the dirt 7. Why does the wine expert taste and smell the dirt of the vineyards he is visiting? He thinks the taste of the plant is from the roots 8. Give three examples of practical applications of the mud/dung mixtures. Fertilize Plaster 9. Practices such as strip mining and mountaintop removal are in pursuit of what resource? Coal and aluminum 10. What happens to the heavy metals that are exposed by strip mining? It goes to the water 11. Los Angeles is mostly covered in concrete and pavement. What happens to the water that falls on the city? Water goes straightly to the ocean without getting clean 11. Explain the relationship between dirt, desertification, and conflict. Without the topsoil cause erosions

12. How do monocultures relate to the Dust Bowl of the 1930s? The plants took all the nutrients from the soil leading for to be dry and easy to move by wind causing Dust Bowl to happen 13. Why does the use of pesticides and herbicides become necessary with monocultures? Because you need to save the whole species our youull be broke. One species and it only takes one to kill the plants 14. How does the use of nitrogen fertilizers result in dead zones in bodies of water? It goes to eutrophication 15. What eventually happens to forest that is cut and burned? It losses it soil 16. What is the cause of the unusually high rate of suicide of Indian farmers? Suicide because couldnt pay debts 17. What did the Haitians in the slum use as a remedy for hunger? They eat dirt 18. If the agroecology methods used successfully in Burkina Faso were duplicated in Ethiopia, how productive could the country be? It can be really affective since it work in Ethopia and setting out an example 19. How does the root system of an annual plant such as wheat compare to the root system of a perennial plant? The perennial plant is 3 X longer the the wheats rootd 20. What is the relationship between the diversity of plant root systems and erosion? The roots helps it keep the topsoil and dirt 21. Give two benefits of planting a green roof. Cooler and make use of space 22. Compare the types of landscapes children in urban settings use to play with those found in the rural villages of India. Urban places in US are pave while in India it is al dirt 23. How long did it take to compost the liquid fish waste into usable soil? 24. What are possible applications of the microbial fuel cells? The tube 25. The movie ends with examples of how working with the soil of the Earth can change someones life. Describe one of these examples Can make you happier

Make you active by planting Be creative by using it as plaster orsource of energy Dirt Reflection I was amazed by this video because it shows a lot of ways to use dirt. Not just being the main stream of just using it to plant thing and for decomposing. It shows that it can be use for plaster for
the walls and fllor. It can be also be use for source of energy by the microorganisms. I like how the movie says that soil isnt dead, but it is living with a lot of life due to microorganisms. It should be considered be living because we needsoil to live because that is were most of our plants are living. But know we can use aquaponic and hydrology. But not al countries can afford it. Dirt is essential for feedint billions of people.